Once my papers were received by the people in DIAC, they gave me a TRN (Transaction Reference Number) to keep track of my process status by entering that code in a website. December past very quickly because of the holidays and January flew away just like that since it was summer, vacations, etc. I almost didn't think about the status of my visa. Then in February I decided to check it out but there weren't any news, everything was the same as in December. On March 5th I was heading to work when I got an email from my migrant agent from Viva en Australia saying that DIAC was officially asking me to do the meds and the police clearances. I got really nervous and anxious because I wasn't expecting this for at least another 3 months.
The next step was to get in touch with one of the doctors authorized by Australia to perform the medical examination and get an appointment as soon as possilbe since the immigration department only gave me til March 26th as the due date; after that day they weren't going to receive anything from me. The doctor lives in Buenos Aires and works there so I had to travel to Bs As. Also, the only place where I can get the Police Clearances is in Registro Nacional de Reincidencias which is situated in Buenos Aires as well, so there was no other way but to travel to Bs As. I flew there on March 8th because on the 9th I had the appointment to get the Police Clearances which by the way they gave it to me on the same day!! Quite efficient I must say! I thought I would had to wait for a couple of days! On the 10th I went to see the doctor, had the labs and the chest x-ray done and that was it. The results were available on March 15th but since the doctor was going to look for them and then send them to Sydney I could fly home the next day. Obviously I called the doctor the next week to ask if everything was ok and he said yes and that he was going to send the documents over the week.
Then I started to enter to the website given by DIAC to check the status, almost every single day!! I went crazy over it!! Because the status didn't change and then in April something changed and I was very happy since it gave me the idea that things were moving!!! To tell you the truth, everything til the meds moved quite quickly but then it just stopped. I still don't have the visa and I was getting worried so I sent an email to Mercedes (my agent from VEA) and asked her if everything was fine because there are people that entered in DIAC after I did and they already have their visas granted. Today I received Mercedes response and she wrote that people from DIAC said that they are checking my case, that it's undergoing somefinal routine processing procedures and once these are completed, the case officer will get in touch so fingers crossed that they will grant my visaaaaaa!!!!
Here there are some pics where you can see how is the status of my process:
This is the second view after entering the information requested:
Then you will see this:
And finally this:
So that is the situation with my application process!! The minute I get any news I will post it!!! Til next time!!
Cheers!!!
Maitena